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The Times of Harvey Milk

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If you have seen Gus Van Sant's Milk, but have not yet seen the award-winning documentary by Rob Epstein, isn't it time you watched the real players in the drama that shaped our liberation? Using original interviews, exclusive documentary footage, news reports and archival footage, the documentary brings Harvey Milk back to life in a touching portrait as a trail blazing hero.

In 1978, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco city council, becoming the first openly gay public official in California. One year later, he and Mayor George Moscone were shot and killed by Milk's fellow council member-former police officer and firefighter Dan White. The Times of Harvey Milkrecreates the tumultuous story of Milk's grass-roots political organizing and election, through the shocking murders and their repercussions-from the eloquent candlelit memorial joined by tens of thousands of San Franciscans on the evening of the assassination, to the angry mobs who stormed City Hall, breaking windows and torching police cars in the aftermath of the lenient sentence White received at his trial.

This classic portrait of communities in conflict has won countless awards, including the Academy Award for best documentary feature, and the film was voted one of the best documentaries of the decade in an American Film Magazine critic's poll.

THIS PROGRAM IS RATED PG